Georgia authorities will close remaining activities at former mental hospitals in Rome and Thomasville on Oct. 1 following state budget cuts.

The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities told lawmakers it would abandon the former mental hospital in Thomasville, as well as a former mental hospital in Rome, because lawmakers were cutting $123 million as part of an overall 10% state budget cut.

Both are no longer inpatient mental hospitals, but the department had continued to maintain them.